So you’re preparing to fly with your baby or toddler this holiday season. When we lived in France, we flew across the pond six times with baby/toddler FirstBorn, so we struggled, learned, then watched other families struggle. One Christmas we sat near an exhausted mother and father who suffered miserably for seven hours trying to […]

Children live in the present moment, which makes them both magical and inconvenient. Children naturally connect to their immediate experience of exploration and play because they have not yet learned how to live in their minds like we do. They are not so concerned about planning for the future or reflecting on the past. They […]

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Traditionally, of course, the full-time homemaker is a housewife or stay-at-home-mom. These days, 70% of mothers work […]